"The Face Recognition use case is just one example demonstrating how 5G will meet the diverse needs of a wide range of industries."

Ericsson Western & Central Europe head Valter D’Avino said: "We are delighted that the Ericsson and Vodafone labs have come together to innovate and this first use case shows an excellent example of how 5G can enable industries to become more efficient as well as more secure and cost effective."

Ericsson has recently partnered with SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to deploy the world’s first transcontinental 5G trial network.

The Swedish firm will be the sole infrastructure supplier to the partnership.

A trial network will be deployed in South Korea and Germany that uses key 5G technologies like network functions virtualisation, software-defined infrastructure, distributed cloud and network slicing.